Month: September 2021

Microsoft uncovers a massive phishing operation offering “Phishing-as-a-Service” subscriptions or one-time tools based on over 120 templates for $80-$100 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Microsoft uncovers a massive phishing operation offering “Phishing-as-a-Service” subscriptions or one-time tools based on over 120 templates for $80-$100  —  – BulletProofLink works as a Phishing-as-a-Service portal for the cybercrime underground.

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Rawalpindi-based TAG Innovation, which builds financial tools for Pakistan’s 100M unbanked adults, raises $12M at a $100M valuation led by Liberty City (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg)

Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: Rawalpindi-based TAG Innovation, which builds financial tools for Pakistan’s 100M unbanked adults, raises $12M at a $100M valuation led by Liberty City  —  – Pakistan is seeing record funding in startups this year  — South Asian country among world’s largest unbanked populations

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How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter  —  Greg Bunnell has played fantasy football since he was a teenager.  So when Indiana legalized sports betting two years ago, the 39-year-old project manager seamlessly switched …

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As it passes 2B iPhones sold, Apple has avoided disruption by adding useful features nobody asked for and avoiding overshooting on performance that few need (Horace Dediu/Asymco)

Horace Dediu / Asymco: As it passes 2B iPhones sold, Apple has avoided disruption by adding useful features nobody asked for and avoiding overshooting on performance that few need  —  Just recently, the 2 billionth iPhone was sold.  Unlike the 1 billionth, there was no announcement, no celebration.

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Working with Azure Managed Instance for Cassandra

Building cloud-native applications at scale requires choosing your stack carefully. One popular tool is Apache’s Cassandra project, a NoSQL database designed to scale rapidly without affecting application performance. It’s an ideal platform for working with big data, with built-in map-reduce tools based on Hadoop, as well as its own query language. Originally developed at Facebook,

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Get started with Go testing

Modern programming languages include native tools for building and running unit tests on code bases. The Go language has its own such toolset, in the form of the testing module and the go test command. In this article we’ll cover the basics of writing unit tests using Go, and deploying those tests side-by-side along with

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FCC says it is reviewing Zoom’s proposed $15B acquisition of cloud-based call center software maker Five9, citing Zoom’s ties to China (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: FCC says it is reviewing Zoom’s proposed $15B acquisition of cloud-based call center software maker Five9, citing Zoom’s ties to China  —  Justice Department-led Team Telecom is looking into whether Zoom’s China ties could make its acquisition of the software company a national-security risk

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